[CentOS] Stupid Question I know...

Phil Savoie psavoie1783 at rogers.com
Tue Apr 5 21:23:16 UTC 2005


On Tuesday 05 April 2005 17:13, Scott Heisler wrote:
> I'm wanting my Centos 4.0 box to boot up into TEXT mode, like all of my
> other Linux servers do.  Unfortunately, it only boots into graphics
> mode and there's some issue with the keyboard (it controls the mouse,
> very poorly).  I can SSH into the box so I can re-config it.. But just
> don't know where to look in this new version.  I tried GRUB.CONF and
> even the SYSTEM_CONFIG programs.. No luck.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Scott

Hi Scott

As root you can go into the file /etc/sysconfig/init and look for the line 
that says GRAPHICAL=yes and change the yes to a no.

You should be good to go from there.

Hope this helps,

Phil



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